lxii HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



Glossopferis Browniana, Brong. 



G. Satherlandi, sp. nov. = G. Browniana, Brong. 



Rubidgea Machayi, sp. nov. = ? 



Dictyopteris (?) simplex, sp. nov. = ? Glossopteris retifera, Feist. 



Fhyllotheca, sp. = ? 



In a synopsis of the Karoo Beds by Professor Eupert Jones, 

 included in Tate's paper, some of the above-mentioned species are 

 stated to be derived from the Beaufort Series. Fossil wood is also 

 mentioned as common. In the same paper, Lepidodendron, etc., are 

 recorded from the Wittenberg, Znurberg, and elsewhere by Wyley. 1 

 This genus had previously been stated to occur at Jackal's Kop, 

 on the eastern side of the Stormberg range, by Kubidge, 2 who 

 also mentions Calamite-like plants from the western part of the 

 Zuurbergen. It is doubtful, however, if these early determinations 

 of Lepidodendron were correct, and the doubt is even stronger with 

 regard to the discoveries next to be described. 



Grey, 3 in some remarks on South African plants, published in 

 1871, recorded Lepidodendron, Sig Maria, and Pecopteris from beds 

 associated with the coal at Andries's Nek, on the north-east margin 

 of the Stormberg range, and 25 miles north-east of Queenstown. 

 Carruthers examined these specimens, and determined the Lepido- 

 dendron to be L. crenatum (Sternberg), which, he observed, was 

 associated with " stems of Catamites, perhaps of three species, such 

 as those which have a very slender periphery." Carruthers also 

 records Pecopteris Cistii (Brong.) ?, " Alethopteris Longchitidis, 

 Stbg., and Asterophyllites equisetiformis, Brg." Grey mentioned 

 a Stigmaria from " the Carboniferous rocks of Lower Albany," 

 but Carruthers decided that, although this has somewhat the 

 appearance of a Cyclodigma, it is a true Sigillaria. 



Professor Rupert Jones 4 also mentions that Mr. Bristow had 

 recognised Sigillaria, Stigmaria, Lepidostrobus, JLalonia, and 

 Selagi?iites in the micaceous shales of Port Alfred, on the 

 Albany Coalfield. These conclusions were reviewed by Zeiller 5 

 in 1883. 



Griesbach, 6 in 1871, also recorded Calamites, Equisetum, and 



' See Tate (67), p. 173. 3 Rubidge (56), p. 237. 3 Grey (71). 



* See Grey (71), p. 51. 5 Zeiller (83). ,; Griesbach (71/, p 



